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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Culture Architect Enlightenment Rome Hb

Culture Architect Enlightenment Rome Hb

Minor, Heather Hyde

Hardcover

Series: Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies, Book 6

General ArchitectureArchitecture History

ISBN10: 0271035641
ISBN13: 9780271035642
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: Mar 22 2010
Pages: 312
Weight: 3.55
Height: 1.10 Width: 9.10 Depth: 10.20
Language: English

Beginning in the 1730s, Heather Minor tells us, Rome began to resemble one huge construction site, with a series of ambitious and expensive new building campaigns that transformed the face and substance of the city. From renovations of the Santa Maria Maggiore and San Giovanni in Laterano and the restoration of the Arch of Constantine to the creation of the Capitoline Museum and the establishment of the papacy's Calcografia, the push for reform not only renewed papal and Church identity but also revived Italian culture as a whole. Based on extensive archival research and full of fascinating stories about the often stormy theological and intellectual debates central to the attempts at reform, The Culture of Architecture in Enlightenment Rome brings to life the personalities of architects, theologians, and intellectuals and links the extensive architectural programs with powerful shifts in the intellectual climate of the time.

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